Got that all out of your system? Okay here's your blogger back; remind him he still needs to pick up dog food.

Hey. So you can wade through all of that, or just visit RationalMSUfan's thoughts and the ensuing comments. There's two points of derp in there (he mistakes four flagrant personal fouls in a game for one, and believes Gardner should start). But give him some credit for coming here sane when his blogosphere looks like this------------(HT Mgrowold)-------------->

He followed Derp 1 with a good point: Dantonio probably didn't see more than the punch and the piling on; maybe he would have pulled him if he saw the arm-bar and the facemask twist too. He sat on the video for four days until the Big Ten issued a suspension so probably no.

Off the board things were a little more under control. Gonzoist jhackney thinks this kind of behavior is something to be proud of, yada yada dick in a mason jar, pass the asparagus.

Like junkies hooked on a drug, Michigan fans in withdrawal began lashing out with a bowie knife everywhere and on everyone. Some of the slashing was justified, but some was just pent up rage left over from three disappointing seasons previous.

Nonnair found MSU averages about five personal fouls, roughed passers or unsportsmanlike penalties in the three games MSU has played Michigan in East Lansing under Dantonio, before devolving into into an unfair comparison with Erickson-era Hurricanes.

I mean this with all possible double entendre: let's move on to…

Wife Week 2011

Do you think these uniforms make me look like a sell-out'? Cause I was going
for all like, 'lets get the team fired up!' -DB

With our D getting gashed recently by MSU the question has been asked “Why not play more 46?” In this diary I hope to go over the strengths, weaknesses and a little history of the Bear Defense.

JeepinBen is your diarist of the week for breaking down the forty-six. MichFan1997 has taken up the mantle of FEI projecting, but after three straight years of dropping way down in the Big Ten season I'm hesitant to believe Michigan's got the 17th best defense in the country just yet. THE_KNOWLEDGE has settled into a new role as kind of a predictions wrangler, like Moe but without the awesome free stuff. Of Logic, Chriseous Dangerous makes the latest picture pages move.

After the jump, the weeklies, the best of the board that wasn't about Gholston, and a six-part series on the Solar Team's bronze performance.

Weekly Deals

The above is the only known photograph of Pix Six commanderJeff. The leaderboard are people who put Ohio State or Michigan State for their Group D; hope you can live with yourselves. The rest of the weekly section, in short:

Big Ten Recruiting Update shows M still way ahead, big gains by Purdue in guys named Cameron, and Nebraska having a rough time in the new neighborhood, by Ace.

Inside the Box Score shows Michigan got six first downs from MSU penalties. ST3 liked the jerseys, though after standing outside the changing room for 25 minutes with a shopping cart and a dead iPhone I said I liked the brown pajmeenah [It's a PASHMINA!]

Upset Watch has an against-the-spread chart for the Top 25. Maize_in_spartyland likes Wisconsin over MSU by more than a TD. I was until last week part of a small segment of the fanbase who rooted for State when they weren't playing Michigan. I think that segment is pretty much gone now. On Wisconsin!

Best of the Board (No Gholston)

Brian answered a mailbag about which offense he'd most like to have and went with Oregon's finely tuned roadster or Oklahoma's turbo-charged Porsche. Eye of the Tiger started a thread to ask the board the same; he went with Wisconsin's dump truck approach or Mike Leach's DeLorean. Related: snoopblue thinks the Devin-Denard packages could bring back the transcontinental. Not sure; that play only works because the defense ignores the quarterback once he has gotten rid of the ball. If it's Steve Breaston throwing to John Navarre or Woodson throwing to Griese it makes sense, but Devin's a guy you leave a guy on.

Things You'd Rather Be Doing Than Shopping

Marcin Szczepanski

Racing Solar Cars. Bronco648 has been reporting back all week from Down 'Undah' where Michigan's solar car overcame some major challenges to finish 3rd overall and 1st among the American cars. Follow the team from Qualifying, to Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, and the concluding Day 6. If you get through all of that, the payoff is the team singing a really nice song while standing in the Three Rivers Fountain of Adelaide.

Hockey. The icers start their quest for the last CCHA banner tonight versus Northern Michigan. Yesman2221has the preview. Michigan commit and national prize horse metaphor Jacob Trouba has a monthly blog at NHL.com.

Life should not be a journey to the grave to arrive safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What A Ride!" HST

Last year's preview was so epic that a sequel would not do it justice.

"True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty." — Yost

"True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty." — Yost